In a press conference after his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 24, President Rodrigo Duterte had hostile words against the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the Office of the Ombudsman.

One week later, he said he was just joking. Watch a video of this flip-flop.

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